As avid users of these services and products, we want these companies to succeed. In the last couple of years, we’ve been involved with over a half dozen tech company acquisitions and building up their compliance programs.

Daniel Goldfried, who formerly served as senior counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and spent a decade as an in-house lawyer in the financial industry, will be Chatham Asset Management's top lawyer as the hedge fund grapples with crises on several fronts.

In-house lawyers at Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs have successfully fought off climate-related proxy resolutions sought by activist investors with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently granting the banks' motions to exclude the resolutions from shareholder consideration.

“You need to take regulatory compliance very seriously and when you do have problems don’t cover it up. That will only turn it into intentional securities fraud and only makes the problem bigger,” said an attorney for the plaintiffs.

In the wake of Sephora and TRESemmé's decisions to sever ties with influencer Olivia Jade Giannulli in the wake of her mother’s arrest on charges stemming from the college admissions scandal, marketing and advertising law experts tell Corporate Counsel that morals clauses in influencer agreements should be drafted as broadly as possible to give the company the right to terminate the partnership when scandal involving the endorser arises.

The first report from Exterro on e-discovery maturity found that companies in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries are the most advanced when it comes to the use of e-discovery technology.

The college cheating scandal hit close to home for us for two reasons. First, the people involved: Aunt Becky (Lori Loughlin), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), college athletic officials. It turns out they can make bad choices like anyone else.

Manufacturers in 2019 are likely to see continued attacks on their energy infrastructure projects, more climate change litigation, and a steady stream of liability actions over data privacy and hacking incidents, according to a new report from the in-house lawyers at the National Association of Manufacturers.

Medical record snooping, or unlawfully accessing patients' data simply for curiosity’s sake, is just as illegal as massive data breaches in which millions of patients’ sensitive health data are compromised, and can expose health care providers to civil liability under HIPAA and state law causes of action, health care data privacy experts told Corporate Counsel.

Under the U.S. Coast Guard's new interpretation of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, an array of industries operating cargo ships, oil tankers and other large vessels that visit U.S. ports must show they have specific plans and resources in place to quickly respond to oil spills and fires.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly evolving way of thinking about the internet and how the devices we use every day interact. IoT describes the developing system in which “smart” devices interact with each other through the internet to gather and exchange data to provide additional functions, security and ease-of-use for human users.

Corporate governance experts say when a company’s general counsel departs—especially when the company does not know the reason for the departure—it should set off little alarm bells for the board of directors.

The study found that male in-house counsel tend to hire male external advisers and pick women as lead partner in a mere 17 percent of cases, while only 29 percent of law departments require the law firms they work with to provide diversity information.

Facebook is facing scrutiny over alleged deals with Amazon, Microsoft and others that allowed companies to obtain users' data without their consent. It's a reminder to all in-house counsel: privacy policies need to be transparent.

Boeing's in-house lawyers can help minimize the fallout from the 737 Max fleet grounding incident by taking the lead on figuring out what happened, preparing for potential litigation and reviewing internal and external communications, former general counsel told Corporate Counsel.

With big-money projects involving chains of subcontractors and sometimes corrupt foreign officials, the construction industry has become a target-rich environment for the DOJ, according to former federal prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys and construction and government contracts lawyers.

Jay Jorgensen, the former executive vice president and global chief ethics and compliance officer of Walmart Inc., is the new general counsel of Coupang, the largest and fastest growing e-commerce company in South Korea.

Kelly Trindel, head of I/O science and diversity analytics at pymetrics and former chief analyst and research director at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, spoke with us recently about what lawyers need to know about the use of artificial intelligence and machine-learning in recruitment and hiring.

As courts and jurors become more comfortable with digital signatures, the process of admitting digitally signed documents will get easier. In the meantime, beyond meeting the technical requirements for admission, take the time to explain the digital signature process to jurors (and judges) in lay terms.

The Food and Drug Administration's new guidance could ban retailers that do not have age-restricted areas of the store from selling flavored tobacco products for e-cigarettes and pushes up the premarket application deadline.

Less than a week after Sen. Elizabeth Warren's call to break up big tech, Spotify has filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Commission—the same regulators that fined Google $5 billion over antitrust concerns last year.

Federal prosecutors so far have named eight universities as unwitting victims of the cheating and say it was the largest-ever college admissions fraud in the U.S. They have charged at least 50 people, including actresses, CEOs and several college coaches with conspiracy to commit racketeering or fraud.

U.S. banks and companies that do business with Huawei need to “understand where their pressure points would be in the relationship with Huawei,” which means examining flows of goods and services, data and money.

Uber Technologies Inc. and its former CEO have signed onto a $20 million agreement with 13,600 drivers in California and Massachusetts, settling claims that the company misclassified its employees as independent contractors to cut labor costs.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Federal Trade Commission regulators have both proposed reversing previously approved mergers and acquisitions by tech giants. In-house counsel can spot red flags and alter or block deals before their company ends up in a subsidiary fire sale.

A former senior sanctions policy adviser for the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control described the Evrofinance sanction as a “two-for-one” move that ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and shows that “dealing with state-owned Russian financial institutions is a high-risk proposition.”

Legal operations managers help legal departments get the most out of their budgets, vendors and technology. They optimize the larger legal supply chain matching up a portfolio of supply (e.g., law firms, alternative service providers, consultants and in-house teams) to the company’s portfolio of legal needs to meet strategic business objectives.

Certain state attorneys general have joined Manufacturers’ Accountability Project, an undertaking by the legal arm of the National Association of Manufacturers, to file amicus briefs opposing recent climate change lawsuits.

Huawei's chief lawyer said in an interview with Bloomberg the U.S. ban on Huawei's products had hurt the company and its reputation. But he asserted that Huawei would only leave the U.S. as a "last resort."

Scott Gottlieb was known for taking on the tobacco industry during his time as commissioner of the FDA. He plans on leaving at the end of the month and the tobacco industry is exercising cautious optimism that his successor will not focus on tobacco regulation.

MTS’s “failure to implement effective internal accounting controls” had allowed the company’s executives and others to get away for years with disguising the bribery payments on the company’s books as acquisition costs, option payments, purchases of regulatory assets and charitable donations, according to the DOJ.

Merriann Metz, who also will hold the title of vice president and secretary, on May 31 will succeed a retiring John Attaway, who joined Publix in 1997 and started the Lakeland, Florida-based grocery giant's corporate legal department.

Because Imerys Talc America Inc., the supplier of talc for Johnson & Johnson Services Inc.'s baby powder, is likely to use a bankruptcy procedure whereby litigants' claims that talc caused cancer are satisfied through trust assets set up during the process, the company and its legal department will likely operate normally, bankruptcy experts told Corporate Counsel.

Huawei deputy chairman Ken Hu's call for governments, regulators and other stakeholders to collaborate and create common cybersecurity standards is great, but experts are skeptical about the lack of detail.

Some antitrust lawyers are skeptical of the announcement last week that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition is naming a 17-staff lawyer task force to examine antitrust issues around big tech — which could possibly include reviewing some past mergers such as Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram.

Veteran environmental lawyer Avi Garbow said of his move: 'For those of us who care ... we are really coming into a crucial period in the administration when those of us who have experience and have a voice need to speak up.'

Comedian Miel Bredouw tweeted a series of emails from Barstool Sports' general counsel Mark Marin. The GC offered her a $50 gift card to retract a DMCA takedown notice against the sports blog, which republished a video she created in December.

A new look at cybercrime trends throughout the world shows that the financial industry experienced a 37 percent increase in takeover attacks during the second half of 2018, and a whopping 107 percent spike when looking at fraudsters' attempts to gain control of user accounts during mobile transactions.

With a single player (could be an inside or outside resource), a game plan can be designed to identify and pursue, systematically, monies which may be owed to the company as a result of actions or omissions by third parties.

New copyright rules, the first update of copyright law in 20 years, would require platforms such as Google and YouTube to give content rights-holders a greater share of the revenue they earn from that content.

After being told that her signature had been forged on hundreds of bogus U.S. trademark applications, Miriam Paton said she sought advice from an IP ethics expert and worked with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to clear her name and resolve a misconduct investigation.

Financial institutions were among the first wave of commercial businesses to explore how blockchain technology can be applied to different aspects of financial markets, including syndicated lending, payment systems, and administration of capital markets.

Collaborations between popular consumer genetic testing companies like 23andMe and pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline to develop new drugs raise data privacy concerns for in-house lawyers, who must navigate this murky compliance landscape largely through privacy policies.

Firms are helping clients prepare for the enactment of the California Consumer Protection on January 1, 2020. But it's difficult to hit the ground running with some vagaries surrounding the law still in place.

Following the news of its split into two independent retail companies, Gap Inc.'s "NewCo" will need a GC prepared to handle the challenges associated with the legacy brands, while the new Old Navy's top lawyer must bring flexibility to the growth company, experts say.

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